Apparatus for unloading barges



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N I TEiD ST AT E S LEL'ANDSQ ROSENER, OFSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

APPARATUS FOR UNLOADING -BARGES Application .led October 16,1919. Serial No. 331,085.

`To all whom it may cof/wem.'

Be `it known `that I, .LELAND S.V Rosanna, a citizen `of the UnitedStates, .and a resident of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California., `have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Unloading Barges, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates-more particularly to the unloading of barges carrying coal, or

. the like; and .its primary object is tofacilitate the transfer yofthe barge load Vto ships, or bunkers, with greater rapidity and more efficiently `than heretofore.

This I accomplish by a combination of handling -and .transferring mechanism. .My invention is kparticularly `adapted, .to the coaling of ships.

By 'referring to 'the accompanying drawings my invention `willbe `made clear.

Fig. 1`is apart side viewof a barge partly in section, equipped with vmy unloading apparatus.

Fig. 2 is a cross .section of Fig. 1 on the section line II-II, with certain .of the parts shown in full for better illustration.

ig. Bis a diagrammatic cross section on the line III--III of Fig. ,1, indicating the relative kposition vof the .bucket and load and barge walls. l

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic showing of the way my apparatus willfautomatically unload -to correct rany listing .of the barge. 4 Figs. i5 and 6 are details of the discharge hopper to facilitate :distribution of material from the barge to .several points without moving .the barge. 1 l f Fig. 7 is a detail .ofthe skip'and weighing platform. l

Fig. Sisa view of .F ig. 7 andat right angles thereto.

Throughout .the drawings like numerals refer to similar parts. f u

The hull of the barge is indicated by the numeral l, upon-which is erected a gallows frame .2, within which is constructed-the elevator mechanism .adapted to operate and di# rectlthe skip .3. Above rthe barge 1, andsupported by the frame structure 30, and .parallel with the barge length. .is mounted the track .structure 29 .and .trolley 5,0, Aadapted to vsupport the traveling grab bucket 5 from tracks 4; bucket .is fadaptedto pass through .the gallows ,iframe .from .end to end lof the barge 1, as shown in VvF ig. Q and .clears the maximum vvload 6, Iso that @the ,grab bucket may be caused to pick up its unit load from any portion of the barge load 6, and be lifted into a position `clear of the remaining barge load, and caused to travel freely upon thetracks 4 through the gallows frame 2.

Mounted ladjacent to the frame 2,-is the hopper 7 positioned to receive the load released from the grab bucket 5, and convey the load dumped therefrom into the skip 3, when the latter is properly positioned as shown in Fig. 2. The `skip 3 is adapted to travel upward in the gallows frame 2, -and clear the hopper 7 in so doing, and to travel to any required position and dump into the discharge hopper 18, from which the load is distributed as bygravity into the bunkers to an adjacent Aship or wharf. l

The mechanism for .ope-rating the 4grab bucket is controlled from suitable power actuated drums through the 'trolley' line 9, adapted to move the bucket upon the tracks 4, and the bucket operating line 10 is adapted to operate the closing mechanism of the grab bucket. Theseropes pass over suitable sheaves in well known ways.

rihe several `drums for the bucket operation are shown at l1, l2, 13. The skip is intended tobe operated in fa well known way by the wire rope la from the power lactuated drum 15 over suitable sheaves and pulleys, so that its raising and lowering is under accurate control.

To adapt the positionof dumping to any location of bunkerto be.loaded, I arrange `a discharge hopper 8 adapted to travel in ways 1G, supported with rollers 21, and toany suitable vertical position under the control of the wire rope 14 from the power actuated drum 18, so that it may beset at required vertical positionsfat yany time, and the load from the skip dumped therein. lThis dumping is `effected automatically by the skip 3 having located on its side. track-ways as 19, 20, which are adapted t'o slide over the roller or pins 2l of the discharge hopper, so that when thesaid pinzQl is `in engagement between the tracks 19, 2O, of the skip 3, any further vertical .advance of the :said skip will cause the skip to tilt so that'itsiconteuts will be .discharged `into the .hopper 8. This dumping position is indicated in the dotted position 22; discharging the load by gravity into 'the discharge hopper f8.

At 23 I provide a weighing platform suspended from the .scales '24, and on which platform the .skip 3 may normally rest,.be

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ing in such position free from the hoistingv cable and frame, so that the accurate weight of the load placed in the skip 3 may be weighed upon the scales 24.

The means which l prefer to use for freei ing the skip 3 from the hoisting mechanism is best shown in Figures 7, 8, wherein the U frame is provided with long slots 26 on each side, within which slots the supporting andturning axis of the skip 3, as

indicated by pivots as' at 27, may freely 25 at such times resting upon the liooras at 28, free of the scale platform.

In some cases, as in coaling ships, itv is advisable to distribute the coal through several different ports into the different bunkers of the ship, and the placing of the coal in any one of the said bunkers by the trimmer gangs does not proceed with the rapidity with which the barge may be unloaded by my apparatus, and in such cases the discharge hopper 8 may be preferably arranged with a plurality of discharge outlets under the control of a movable gate, or gates, or diaphragm device, which may be actuated as by cable from below, such that any skip load may be distributed through the discharge hopper into any one of a plurality of chutes, so that more than one gang of bunker trimmers may be kept employed by the rate of unloading accomplished with my apparatus. Such a `distributing hopper is `shown liii-Figures 5 and 6, wherein the rolls, or pins 21, engage the uprising skip to tip it into the position 22 so that it dumps upon thebottom'of the hopper 36. From here it will slide by gravity over the movable door `37 and through the outlet spout 38 into a suitable chute, or if the door 37 be raised against the jamb 39 as by the lever 40, the load will fall into the laterally distributing chutes 41, 42. These chutes 41, 42` are under the control of doors, or in the preferred construction shown, a wing gate 43 externally controlled by the lever 44, which in the position shown closes the chute 41l and yrests against stop 47, and in which position it diverts material descending on the bottom 36 through the opening occasioned by raising 37 against the j amb 39, which falling against the door 43,"is diverted into the chute 42. The door 43 is actuated through the external lever 44, by which it may be swung from the position shown into the dotted position 45 against the support 46, at which time descending material will be diverted away from the chute 42` and through the chute 41.

In forming the bunker space in the barge I employ sloping sides as 31, 32, and the flat bottom 33, such that the grab bucket in descending vertically will in its open position fully cover the floor with 33,' as indicated in Fig. 3.l f j f `With my apparatus itwill be seen that in the event of any unequal lateral distribution'of the load 6, causing listingl of the barge, as indicated at 34 (Figs4) the grab bucket will, under the actionof gravity, au tomatically `swing into a position to take the load at the heaviest part, and thus act, at alltimes, to correct any listing; resulting in the maintenance of' perfect trim or equilibrium. of the unloading barge. The operation is as follows: My bargebeing loaded, as for example, with coal is brought alongside a ship thatis tobe coaled, and a suitable chute, or chutes. isplaced-between the discharge hopper 8, as indicated at 48 (Fig. `2), and the ships bunkers, or bunker ports, the elevationl of the discharge hopper 8 is set through the action ofthe drum18-and cable 14, so that the `coal will distribute by gravity from the hopper 8 into theships bunkers through the chute 48; the grab bucket 5 is now caused to descendby the 'cable lineor lines 35, anda `load picked up,the bucket being closed by the action 'of the cable 10. The loaded bucket is now raised and then' transferred alongthe tracks 4I by the trolley line 9. The several cable lines 35, 10 `and 9, being respectively operated by power drums, as required, as 11, 12, 13, until the bucket 5 occupies a position over thehopp'er7, at whichtime, the line 10 is released' by the operator `at the drum 12, and the load dumped, when, under the action ofV gravity a iow will occur into the skip 3, which has been previously set into the"po`sition shown in Fig. 2. The skip and its load are now weighed on the scale platform 23 by the scale beams 24, and the skip 3 is thereafter raised by the cable 14, through ways 17 and'U frame 25 engaging axle pins 27; through the action offthe power drum 15, until the tracks 19, 2 0, `ofthe skip 3, in its upward passage engage between them the pins, or rollers, 21, located on the ydischarge hopper 'mechanismv 8, causing the skip to tilt over, pivoting at such time on the axle pivots'27 within the yframe 25. The skip in tilting to the dotted position as v22 will transfer its load by gravity into the dischargev hopper, and thence into the ship through anyone of the several chutes and to any of the several positions desired, depending upon the position of the vcontrol gates 37 and 43 which determine itspassage through any one ofthe several outletsof thedistributing hopper 8.

a I prefer tomake the-capacity ofthe skip 3 slightly largerlthan `the capacity of :the

i bucket 5, so as toavo'idthe necessity .for any and inconvenience of controlgates andthei operation for the said hopper.

In the longitudinal operation of vthe bucket 5, it is preferable to direct the :successive trips ofthe 'bucket 5so as to .equalize the rate of .longitudinal lunloading. This rate will `be entirely automatic, `the grab bucket at all times will yswing laterally to that portion of the cross section carrying the greatest load and 'thus .at Aafl-l times correcting any list Attention is directed to my Patent #1,370,226, issued March 1, 1.921, wherein is set forth `further disclosure and .claims for improvements in barges. v 1

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1. A barge in combination with a. bucket and hoisting and conveying means forsaid bucket, a. hop-per adapted lto receive "a load from said bucket Vrand *discharge said load into a skip; a skip and a. tra-'me within which said skip is adapted to travel fvertically; a discharge hopper adjacent tothe path of the said skip into which a `load from the -skip may be. dumped, and power means for operating the bucket and power means for operating the skip, saidfskip and frameV being located at substantially the longitudinal center of the barge, said' barge construc'ted with bunker walls sloping towards a flat bottom saidbottom "having Va width substantially equal to the range 01:' "bucket sweep. Y i

Q. A barge incombination with a 'bucket and hoisting and conveying means for said bucket, a hopper adapted to 'receive 'a load trom said bucket and ydischarge said `load into a skip; askip anda frame within which said skip is adapted toI` travel vertically; a discharge hopper adjacentfto the -path of the said skip into which a load from the skip may be dumped, andVpo-wer means for operating the bucket and power means for operating the skip, said ski and frame being located at substantially t e longitudinal center of the barge, located centrally with respect to the barge load and vertically therefrom, said barge constructed with bunker walls sloping towards a flat bottom, said bottom having a width substantially equal to the range of bucket sweep. y y

3. In a barge for coaling ships, longitudinalsides sloping towards a fla-t bottom; a transfer frame and tracks supported substantially central over the said bottom; a

grab Abucket and means by whic-hsaid "bucket maybe caused to take inordischarge a load, and .means which it may be raised orlowered, .and means by which it .may be transferred on said tracks.; a skip constructed and adapted to receive load discharged from said bucket and to `elevate the said load thereafter to Vany required height.; a traveling frame for said skip and means for operating the skip therein, and means -to discharge the load from said skip.

4. In a barge for coalingsships, longitudinal sides sloping towards a flat bottom, a transfer frame and 'tracks supported substantially central over the said bottom; a grab bucket and means by which said bucket may be caused to takein `or .lischarge axload, and means by whichit may be vraised or lowered, Vand means by "whichit may be transferred on said tracks; a skip `constructed and adapted .to receive a load discharged from said bucket and Vto elevate t-he lsaid load thereafter to anyrequired height; a traveling frame for said skip and means for operating` the skip therein, and `means to discharge the load from said skip, and weighing means `on which the skip is adapted to rest in its lowest position and disengaging means by which the skip is disengaged from its associated mechanism when weighing.

l5.na barge for coaling ships, longitudi-e nal sides ys`lopingtowards a flat bottom, a transfer' frame and tracks supported substantiallycentral over the vsaid bottom; 1a grab bucket and means by which said bucket may be caused to take in or discharge a load, and means by which it maybe raised or lowered, and means by which it may be transferred on 'said tracks ya skip constructed and adapted to receive ra load discharged from said bucketandtoelevate thesaid loadv thereafter to any required height; a traveling frame for said skipand means for operating the skip therein,and me'ansto discharge vthe load from said skip,fand disengaging means and weighing mechanism consisting of a platform "hung from a scale beam whereby the-skip andits load ymay be weighed free of other parts. 6. In a barge orcoalin'g'ships, longitud-inal sides sloping towards a Hat bottom, a transfer frame and tracks supported substantially central over the said bottom; a grab bucket and means by which said bucket i may be caused to take in ordischarge a load,

and means by which it may be raised or lowered, and means by which it may be transferred on said tracks, a skip constructed and adapted to receive a load discharged from said bucket and to elevate the said load thereafter to any required height; a traveling frame for said skip and means for operating the skip therein, and means to discharge the load from said skip, and automatic disengaging means and lweighing fil mechanism consistingof a platfornrhungv from av scale beam whereby the skip-and its,

load `may be weighed free of otherparts.

7 In abarge torcoalingships, longitudinal sides sloping towardsa fiat b-ottom, ai

transfer frame 4and .tracks supported substantially central over the said bottomgfa grabbucket and means by which said bucket may be caused to take Ain or discharge a load, and means by which it may be` raised;

or lowered, and means by which itmay be transferred on said tracks; a skipV co-nstructed and adapted to receive a loaddischarged from said Abucket and to elevate the said load thereafter to anyrequiredheight,

atraveling frame for said `skip and means for operating the skip therein, and ymeans to discharge the 4load "from the skip, and weighing' means by which t the. skip is disen gaged from its associated mechanism `when weighing; a discliargehopper to receiveload from the skip, said hopper being vertically, adjustable and co-operatingmeans between.

said hopper andy said traveling` skip whereby the skip is caused to discharge itsload into said hopper. i i v .1.

f 8. A coaling barge provided witha longitudinally extending bridge having a track thereon, atrolley mounted .for longitudinal movement on said. track, a grabbucket car-r ried `by said trolley, a tower located at an intermediate portionof the bridge,a skip or hoist bucket mounted for vertical travel in said tower, means for deliveringthe ma-` terial from thegrab bucket kto the skipforhoisting bucket', and means forl dumping the skip or hoisting bucket when elevated, subf` stantially as described.

, 9. Acoaling barge provided with a longitudinally extending bridge having a track l thereon, atrolley mounted. for longitudinal dump at diiierent heights, `substantially .as described. 1 p i *l -1 l0. Theicombination of a barge provided with a longitudinal extending structure or bridge having a track-thereon, a trolley ar-A ranged for longitudinal travel on said track,

a grab bucket carried by said trolley, a tower located atan intermediatepoint oi saidbarge and on one side thereof between said bridge and the side of said barge; a skip or hoist bucket mounted on suitable tracks for vertical travel in said tower, a chute for delivering by, gravity the material discharged by` the grab bucket to the skip or hoisting bucket when in its lowered position,`means for elevating said skip or hoist bucket, and means for dumping same, and a movable or adjustable hopperand chute combined in which the-bucket isdumped, said combined hopper mounted in said tower or tracks i'orvertical movement, substantially as described.

.-ll. A barge havinga bridge extending longitudinally thereof,` conveying mechanism arranged to travel. on` said bridge, a

stationary tower located at an intermediate portion oiithe barge and to the base of which material may bevdelivered from both end portions of the barge, a hoisting bucket on. said tower, and, means for dumping said bucket when raised, substantially as described,

ore chute` being also 12A coaling .i barge provided with a longitudinally extending bridge, ay track ,on said bridge, a trolley mounted for longitudinal movement on. said track, a grab bucket carried by the trolley, a tower located at an intermediate portion of the bridge, a skip mounted for verticaltravel in said tower, means` i'or delivering thematerial from the grab bucket to theskip, means for dumping the skip when elevated, and weighing meanswhereby each load of material iweighed before its ydischarge into said sip. l .Y

In testimony whereof, l have ,hereunto set my hand at the city of San Francisco, California,this 9th day of Gctober, 1919.

,LELAND s. Rosanna 

